NS 112 has begun its daily afternoon trip out of Knoxville, heading north on the K&O toward Powell, Clinton, and eventually Harriman where it will jump on the CNO&TP to continue north. Leading on ... (more)

A northbound auto rack train behind an ex-C&NW leader skirts along CSX's West Knoxville Yard. There are actually 4 trains in this picture: L228 in the foreground, Q539 on the adjacent track (powe... (more)

EMD Classics! The T69 West Local is on it's daily journey from John Sevier Yard in Knoxville to Loudon, TN behind an all EMD consist, with not a wide cab in sight! On the point is an intere... (more)

With power from five big units, this early morning manifest starts to slow as it approaches the west entrance to John Sevier Yard.

Two Canadian visitors team up with a regular on northbound manifest Q542. The train is crossing the Little River, which flows out of the Smokey Mountains through Townsend, Wallend, and Maryville,... (more)

A Knoxville & Holston River GP9 leads one of the final Christmas trains back toward the station in downtown Knoxville.

NS 126 screams past the set of crossings in Bearden behind two of NS's common Dash 9s.

NS T12 tops the slight grade in Fountain City, Tennessee behind an Ex-Conrail SD40-2 and an Ex-Southern GP38-2.

With the AT&T building as a back-drop, 134 comes rolling into downtown Knoxville at City Yard.

On a beautiful Saturday morning back in October 2013, NS 2675 is only a couple of miles out of Sevier Yard with empty coal train 787 in tow northbound on the K&O line, heading back to the mine for... (more)

Looking back into my files, I found the Southern Railway heritage unit leading NS Loudon Local T69 west from John Sevier Yard in the summer of 2014.

Back in the spring of 2013, about an hour after 202 came through eastbound (pictured here), 15T heads west out of Knoxville. ... (more)

The daily eastbound stack train from the CNO&TP glides down the OPM, or Old Passenger Main, a term at Sevier for this single track derived from this being the line where hotshot passenger trains w... (more)

A Norfolk Southern local cruises west through Mascot. He is passing a camp train that has been sitting in the maintenance spur for going on three months now. Just by looking at this train, you cou... (more)

NS local T12 charges out of the siding northbound to Clinton after nearly an hour wait for NS stack train 23G to battle Copper Ridge and clear Bradford, the technical name for the siding in which... (more)